Product Description

You do not mess with Reacher, in Lee Child’s irresistible new bestseller.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12945 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 512 pages

Daily Mirror
Child is a great storyteller, building plots that, although
complex, are as compelling as they are ultimately logical...another
sure-fire hit.

Yorkshire Evening Post
The twists come thick and fast...and the surprise developments are
genuinely unexpected...Child, as always, delivers.

Guardian
It's his hero, hyper-tough ex-US army special investigator Jack
Reacher, who keeps me coming back for more...never a dull moment.

Customer Reviews

bit tired round the edges
Reacher seems to be running out of steam a bit with this plot. Not the best by a long way. Look at the Soft Target books by Conrad Jones, electrifying series of novels. Lee Child fans will still enjoy this one, just not as much as some, such as the Killing Floor, at his best, and Nothing to lose at the other extreme.

Reacher, but a bit different...
Nothing will top Lee Child's first novel "Killing Floor" for originality, however, "Bad Luck and Trouble" is still an enjoyable read.

Jack Reacher is back but rather than the standard formula of Jack alone against the bad guys, he finds help from his former army buddies in the Military Police. They think along the same lines as he does and yet they have their own individual strengths. They've all done well in comparison to Reacher, but there are times of reflection when they wonder if they really are better off than Reacher. Unfortunately, with so many people involved, character development is thin. A bit of dramatic tension between the protagonists might have been considered but it is still very much a 'them and us' plotline.

A very good Reacher novel, but not a great Reacher novel.

Feeling tired
I've enjoyed the Reacher novels, some more, some less, but this one feels tired. The very smart protagonists make some very dumb assumptions in order to get the plot working, and IIRC Reacher's facination with numbers is suddenly added in for not good reason whatsoever. And no [X] would need remotely that many [Y]s (nound removed for spoiler purposes). Child needs to start writing some stand alones in order to try out new tricks that he can then import back to the Reacher format.